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TPM’s Eric Kleefeld reports that the Minnesota Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of Democrat Al Franken in his Senate election contest with former

While packed with carrots encouraging mortgage lenders to modify troubled loans, President Barack Obama’s plan to stem the foreclosure crisis still awaits its stick.

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, or House Resolution 3, which has stirred up anger among abortion-rights advocates throughout the nation -- House

We have seen the abuses by contractors, Clinton says, lamenting the overall trend of moving to a contracted State Department security workforce. It’s been

Palin has activated a key component of the Republican coalition. But the progressive evangelicals are also in play.

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Brian Beutler flags an interview Fareed Zakaria conducted with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about contributing additional troops to Afghanistan or

This is deep in the weeds of a political dynamic I can hardly say I fully understand, but how much sense does it make for the exiled son of the shah to give a

Were Eisenhower alive, he’d no doubt be appalled at how thoroughly five-decades worth of policymakers have ignored his famous warning regarding the rise of the

The troubled--but still sold out--National Tea Party Convention got more bad news after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the for-profit nature of the event

The Defense Department announced just now that the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division will deploy to Afghanistan in support of the Obama

Jonathan Cohn says what needs to be said about the House Republicans’ new chart mocking the House Democrat-sponsored health care bill: But these charts -- and,

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is floating the idea of opening a special interest office in Tehran. Basically it would handle the non-diplomatic tasks of

President Obama’s widely praised speech last night laid out the goals of his new housing plan and emphasized the government will help responsible homeowners.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D), who won re-election earlier this month, announced yesterday that he hopes to use his next four years in office to pass a

Here’s a fairly disturbing trend. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows a significant jump in the number of Americans who doubt the seriousness of the global

President Obama is speaking in Madison, Wisconsin, this evening in an attempt to reenergize young voters -- a group which voted for him over Sen. John McCain

Syndicate of terror was how Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described the relationship between al-Qaeda and the various insurgent and terrorist

Over the weekend, Israel evicted two Palestinian families from largely-Palestinian East Jerusalem, a move met with near-universal international condemnation.

Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. Now that Sen. John McCain has officially lost the presidency, Politico reminds him that he still has an audit to look